Wir sind in mitten einer historischen Energiekrise in der Energiekonzerne Rekordgewinne einfahren. Aber anstatt Profitmargen zu begrenzen & Preise zu bremsen subventioniert die Regierung mit jedem Cent Steuersenkung der nicht weiter gegeben wird die Profite noch.

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This Friday, come celebrate the online launch of our special issue on Language Machines in @journaloflinganth.bsky.social with @soclinganth.bsky.social We are looking forward to a lively conversation with @bethmsemel.bsky.social, prosecco in hand :)

This Friday, come celebrate the online launch of our special issue on Language Machines in @journaloflinganth.bsky.social with @soclinganth.bsky.social We are looking forward to a lively conversation with @bethmsemel.bsky.social, prosecco in hand :)

„Die schlimmsten Krisen sollten nicht die besten Zeiten für Unternehmen in überlebenswichtigen Sektoren sein." Mein Spiegel Interview über den kommenden Preisschock trotz wackligem Frieden und was jetzt zu tun ist. 🧵

Language machines: Toward a linguistic anthropology of large language models by Siri Lamoureaux, Michael Castelle, Anna Weichselbraun doi.org/10.1111/jola...

Fossil fuel stocks are exploding in response to the war on Iran. Who stands to benefit? The richest of the rich. Who stands to lose? All of us who have to pay higher prices for energy and a new round of sellers' inflation.

the link to our special issue on Language Machines is online! find our introduction (why we need linguistic anthropology to understand LLMs) & the first batch of articles here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1... if you have something to contribute, please contact us!

Google not only supplies the fake citations via Gemini, their awful products in the form of knowledge infrastructure are so shoddily kept that they can't be fucked to remove fake venues.

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Here's the introduction to the special issue: doi.org/10.1111/jola... in which we argue: We need linguistic anthropology to understand Large Language Models! Clickclickclick if you like reading feisty-programmatic-staking-of-intellectual-ground types of words...

new paper so fresh it doesn't have an issue # yet! Noya Kohavi and I looked at a crowdsourced AI testing suite and analyzed how contributors’ ideas about language, intelligence & cognition play a surprisingly big role in shaping how LLMs are tested, and what we think AI is. doi.org/10.1111/jola...

There’s no such thing as Social Media.

THE MEME IS REAL

Kolleg*innen in der AAU Klagenfurt/Celovec erklären sich ebenfalls mit dem Antifa-Camp und dem #Peršmanhof Ko-Museum solidarisch (inklusive früherem Rektor und jetziger Rektorin der Universität: www.aau.at/blog/stellun...

In Österreich ist eine Gedenkstätte von der Polizei regelrecht überfallen worden. Die Geschichte der Endphasenverbrechen ist leider sehr reich an Ereignissen. Eines davon ist der Peršmanhof, wo eine SS-Polizeieinheit im April 1945 ein Massaker anrichtet, auch an Kindern. Heute ist der Peršmanhof…

If this is accurate, WeTransfer is unusable for professional creative work. Would violate most work-for-hire contracts to share copyrighted material with a third party like this.

The wild thing here is that the bill text that aims to prevent AI regulation defines "AI" incredibly broadly: Essentially, any system that uses computing to provide information or aid decision-making. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Today's Supreme Court decision does not opine on the constitutionality of Trump's assault on birthright citizenship. It is limited to the question of universal injunctions. But its ruling on that front is MASSIVE—a huge blow to plaintiffs and judges trying to block Trump's most lawless policies.

Our digital repositories team spends a great deal of their time now simply protecting our commoned public digital resources from bots. This insatiable, aimless, destructive desire to excrete novel slop is impeding our access to — and even damaging — our cultural heritage + vetted public knowledge.

"There are a growing # of AI bots crawling repositories[; they're] sufficiently aggressive [to] cause service disruptions + outages... As a result, some repositories have started to block machine access to their collections, which is also inadvertently blocking other desired network services..."

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

according to conservatives on the court, the constitution does not protect your right to your own body but does enable the government to ship you off to a foreign gulag without any hope of return

i’d second that

read this as the nuclear nonproliferation regime is being destroyed by Israel 😬🙄😵‍💫

Dies ist ein echter tweet einer echten Bundesbehörde.

Staatliche Förderungen sichern das Überleben von Volksgruppen und den Erhalt ihrer Sprache, Kultur und Rechte. Die Kürzungen der Regierung bedrohen ihre Existenz. Fordere jetzt die Rücknahme dieser Sparmaßnahmen: mein.aufstehn.at/petitions/st...

the epa says it's giving up on regulating emissions from power plants just days after noaa released the highest-ever recorded seasonal co2 concentrations at mauna loa. what a time to be alive!!!!!!!!!

I spoke to two former govt workers who helped create IRS's Direct File software, which is set to be killed by DOGE/Trump/Intuit but thankfully just got open sourced. Both of them seem optimistic about what people are going to be able to do with the codebase: www.404media.co/directfile-o...

It's a golden age for douche-bros. Big Balls is now at the top of the federal salary system www.wired.com/story/big-ba...

Meta is a defense contractor. "The company announced on Thursday that it will work with defense technology start-up Anduril to offer the U.S. military and its allies technology for soldiers involving augmented reality and artificial intelligence software."

der linke wienzeilen radweg ist im grossen und ganzen sehr fein zu fahren. Nur dieses Schild bei der Kreuzung Girardigasse trübt das Radfahrende Herz.

Today, we received notice that our team’s last remaining NSF grant was terminated. For the first time since 2009, when I received an NSF Fellowship for Graduate Research, I have no active NSF grants.

US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has quietly rescinded several internal policies that were designed to protect some of the most vulnerable people in its custody—including pregnant women, infants, the elderly, and people with serious medical conditions.

At least 78 students arrested at Columbia University sit in www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHJU...

This is the language I put on all of my syllabi this year regarding the use of AI. At this point I don't see any reason to change it.

check out the whole special issue on the political uses of indeterminacy which is full of bangers!

there's a county in Alabama where Black people are literally getting sick because the government doesn't provide a working sewer system, and Trump's Justice Department is trying to keep it that way apparently Black people with indoor plumbing is "illegal DEI" ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Find the full story at FTM in English: www.ftm.eu/articles/spy... And on Falter’s website in German: www.falter.at

Donald Trump has a long history of market manipulation. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This was one of the funnest and most inspiring reading groups I've ever been a part of, and even left a material trace in the form of a traveling common-place book, which was sent to me first! :) paperology.openthresholds.org

When Walmart and Target become luxury retailers... on.ft.com/42no19v US consumers face sharp price increases from Donald Trump’s tariffs, say analysts

It’s the stupid, economy.

Tariffs are cost shocks. Last time around, across the board cost shocks coordinated price hikes and triggered sellers' inflation (see paper below). Get ready for the next inflation bout! This time courtesy of MAGA. peri.umass.edu/wp-content/u...

If Tump's tariff explosion ends up shocking not only the US but also it's trading partners into a recession, it could give a global boost to extreme right parties.

Alright doomscroll friends, here's a thread to 📌 on safeguarding yourself. First, a guide to protecting yourself from government surveillance as Donald Trump vows to go after his enemies and exploit America’s digital surveillance machine to do so.

1990s culture wars: We’re cancelling the Enola Gay exhibit bc veterans and historians can’t agree whether we should celebrate its role in ending WWII or critically assess the decision to use nuclear weapons 2020s culture wars: We’re cancelling the Enola Gay bc “gay” is a no-no word

why it's almost as if there's a well-funded authoritarian cabal working in global unison to dismantle democratic norms for their collective benefit by waging war on journalism, education, legal accountability, and informed consensus

Dystopia as product roadmap: the engineer's penchant for authoritarian technological solutions